History

With July Fourth falling on a Friday this year, many local businesses are closing up shop. Neighborhood leaders say they will redirect efforts to the 2026 celebration.

Three sites will tell different facets of the history of the Underground Railroad in Chester County.

The Museum brought Philadelphians together in celebration of the holiday’s 160th anniversary.

The museum’s special programming targeted visitors who may not have known about America’s second independence day and the people behind it.

NPR's Ben Abrams utilized his culinary background for a deep dive on the connection between food and Juneteenth.

Last year, threats against elected officials reached an all-time high. And polls find more Americans support the use of violence to achieve a political goal. We discuss why.

As America celebrates its semiquincentennial in 2026, visitors can hearken back to the Revolutionary War inside the 40-foot Durham boat along the Delaware River.

Zenos Frudakis renders Muhammad Ali’s 1965 win over Sonny Liston for the town where it happened.

The first national observance was shortly after the American Civil War and was then called Decoration Day. Veterans decorated war graves with blooming flowers.

A two-episode podcast by WHYY News explores the exclusive story of a helicopter pilot who warned the city that “the bunker’s no threat” before the police dropped the bomb.

Forty years on, journalists, activists and archivists discussed who does the telling, and how.

The bombing on May 13, 1985 claimed the lives of 11 people, including five children, and decimated an entire block in Cobbs Creek.

Investigative reporter Linn Washington remembers the MOVE bombing 40 years later .

A West Philly school founder shares the story of how students led a campaign to install a historical marker at the site of the 1985 MOVE bombing.

The Citadel CEO's first-edition copies will be placed in a new public exhibit, marking the center’s largest renovation since it opened in 2003.